Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — NEW YORK BANKER INSPECTS THE ROUTE [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK BANKER INSPECTS THE ROUTE

In Company With Promoter Brown and Others He Drives From Lafayette to Morocco. O. L. Brown, the promoter of the Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Co., in company with a well-known New York banker nad a former president of the National Bankers Association of America, »went over the route of the projected railroad Tuesday afternoon. There were others in the party, including a construction engineer and Perry O’Connor, a wealthy farmer in Round Grove township, White coutnq. Mr. O’Connor knows what the building of the road will do for the west part of White county and he is for the road tooth and toenail and all the knocking that has been done by a sour-grape newspaper has no more effect on him than water on a duck’s back. The gentleman who came from New York to go over the route represents interests that will finance the road if in his judgment the proposition is a good one. He has informed Mr. Brown that the voting of the subsidies is an important thing in the financing of the road. The financier who went over the road is a recognized leader in the financial world and if the subsidies are voted we confidently expect to see the road Mr. Brown is projecting constructed. Mr. O’Connor says that the subsidy project will prevail in Round Grove, West Point and Princeton townships, White county. He says it will mean a remarkable thing to that rich country, where much of the land is now from 8 to 12 miles from a grain market